I Returned For Thanksgiving To Find My Parents Gone—And My Father Waiting

him come out at all. Not once. I knocked on your door Friday to bring over some banana bread, but nobody answered. The house looked so dark.”

She stirred her tea thoughtfully.

“I asked Brady before he left if Victor was going on the cruise too, and you know what he said?”

“What did he say, Edith?”

“He said, ‘The old man’s fine. He prefers the quiet.’ Then continue reading …